For a truly complete unit study, you will want to include many disciplines. Art is an easy one to incorporate into your rainforest explorations because Henri Rousseau painted a whole series of fanciful Jungle images.
Study these paintings with your children. Compare what you see with what you know is true about actual rainforests. Then let your children make their own Rousseau style jungle paintings. Use the online game below, or make your own with crayons or paints. Be sure to include it in your rainforest lapbook somewhere.
Art Projects for Kids is a truly amazing blog when it comes to art ideas for children. This lesson is about creating tigers in the same style as Rousseau.
Many ideas and pictures for creating your own jungle artwork. Also includes biographical information about the artist, who never visited a rainforest, by the way.
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Art Connection
For a truly complete unit study, you will want to include many disciplines. Art is an easy one to incorporate into your rainforest explorations because Henri Rousseau painted a whole series of fanciful Jungle images.
Study these paintings with your children. Compare what you see with what you know is true about actual rainforests. Then let your children make their own Rousseau style jungle paintings. Use the online game below, or make your own with crayons or paints. Be sure to include it in your rainforest lapbook somewhere.
Rousseau Tiger Drawing at Art Projects for Kids
Art Projects for Kids is a truly amazing blog when it comes to art ideas for children. This lesson is about creating tigers in the same style as Rousseau.
Art Lesson Ideas for Henri Rousseau
Many ideas and pictures for creating your own jungle artwork. Also includes biographical information about the artist, who never visited a rainforest, by the way.
Art and Ecology
Lesson plans by the National Gallery of Art dealing with many images, one of which is Henri Rousseau's Tropical Forest with Monkeys.
Jungle Interactive
An interactive design activity for kids. Create your own rainforest artwork similar to Rousseau's. Then print it out for your lapbook.
Rousseau Fantasy Jungle
Have students create elements to place into a fantasy jungle.